"He is believed to have been an Orthodox Christian, of Slavic appearance"

Just exactly what is the "Slavic appearance"? I've met Bulgarians who looked a lot like Greeks or Turks. Yet Bulgarians are Slavs.

Some Russians, who have Tatar features, look kind of like Asians. But the majority of Russians whom I've ever met look just like other northern Europeans. In fact, I think that you could pick out 5 average Russians in Moscow, put them next to 5 Anglo-Americans in Boise Idaho, and you'd be hard-pressed to pick out who came from which country.

The worst case scenario in all of the west are terrorists who, disaffected or alienated for one reason or another from the native culture, convert to radical Islam and fancy themselves as Jihadists. It is foolish to believe that this could not happen in Russia just as it is foolish to think the same in the US, UK or anywhere.

The ethnic Russian man police believed could have been the suicide bomber at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport has been cleared by DNA analysis, according to sources close to the investigation.

On Thursday, the Kommersant newspaper named 32-year-old Vitaly Razdobudko as the prime suspect in Monday's bombing, which killed 35 people. Mr Razdobudko, a Muslim convert, went missing from his home in the Stavropol region in southern Russia in October; police believe he may be linked to the Nogai Brigade, one of many interlinked terrorist cells operating in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region. (...)